Miscellaneous

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The Miscellaneous preferences page is accessed by selecting Options, followed by Preferences and finally Misc from the main menu bar. Then click on the Miscellaneous tab at the top of the preferences dialog.

Integrated viewer

Open supported image file types in the viewer when double clicked

When checked double clicking an image file will open it in the integrated Magellan Explorer viewer. When left unchecked it will use the Window registry association instead and open the file in whatever application currently associated with it.

Open text files (txt, nfo, diz) in the viewer when double clicked

The same as the option above, except this applies to text files with the extensions .txt, .nfo and .diz.

Tip: You can view any file with the Magellan Explorer viewer no matter what these two options are set to by using the view tool rather than double clicking the file. For more information, see the section on the Integrated Viewer.

Use ActiveX support to view HTML, Office documents and AutoCAD files

Magellan Explorer supports viewing certain types of files natively within the integrated viewer using external ActiveX (COM) components. If you would rather view this as text/hex then uncheck this option. This setting applies only to files opened using the view tool. Files double clicked will always use the registry association.

Advanced options

Disable trimming of process working set on minimize

From Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 293215:

When an application's top-level window is minimized through the Minimize command from its System menu or a click on its Minimize button, the operating system will trim the working set for the process. This is done to free up RAM for foreground applications. As a result of this trimming, a process may experience significantly poorer performance because its memory pages are being faulted back into RAM.

Magellan Explorer can disable this trimming to improve performance when un-minimizing.

Show first level of favorites directly in My Computer folder list

Prior to version 3.0 Magellan Explorer would display the first level of favorites directly in the My Computer list, rather than just the Favorites item as in 3.0 and 3.10. With the introduction of 3.20 this display is again the default. You can turn it off if you preferred it the way it was in 3.0 and 3.10.